THIS UTTERLY FOOLISH ADVENTURE IN FOREIGN POLICY

23 July 2023

I am waiting for the book to come out, not on the military or political history of the war, but on the role played by our media in keeping us in the dark for so long, the propaganda war of Western gov.ts against their own peoples, the Why? and the How?. Could Noam Chomsky write a farewell jubilatory apocryphal "Manufacture of Consent 2.0"?

You can only fool people for so long. Now, newspapers in the West are starting to publish perspectives on defeat, though it has to be said I am waiting for the blame-articles to start rolling off the presses of this august broadsheet. "Oh, it was the minefields what done for us" will not be enough - why ever did things come to this pretty pass in the first place?

This war looks like it is closing the parenthesis on Western supremacy, Why in the world did we so mismanage and squander our numerous advantages as to get into this mess?

We suffer here and now from the disastrous consequences of these steps to advance Nato and contain Russia, will we seek war with China in the same way? What world are we bequething to our children?

Why has Europe allowed itself to become a mere vassal of America and its violent, uncompromising and opaque foreign policy establishment?

Where was The Voice of the People? What can we do to repair our societies from growing internal conflicts and still remain free?

Good luck everybody sorting out your lives after this utterly foolish adventure in foreign policy.